2018 Oscars Challenge: [43] “Call Me By Your Name” – 4 Nominations

“CALL ME BY YOUR NAME”
Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito
Writer: James Ivory
Cinematography: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Editor: Walter Fasano
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Run-time: 132 minutes

FILM SYNOPSIS: Seventeen-year-old Elio Perlman lives in Northern Italy with his translator mother and professor father, who welcomes American doctoral student Oliver to help with his work for the summer. The cultured yet shy Elio is impressed with the confident Oliver, and their friendship blossoms into a relationship that transforms his life.

PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
“Elio Perlman”

CHARACTER SYNOPSIS: Timothée Chalamet portrays Elio, a music-loving 17 year old living in Italy who becomes enamored with Oliver, a visiting American graduate student during the summer of 1983.

“MYSTERY OF LOVE”
Music, Lyrics, & Performed by Sufjan Stevens

Lyrics:

Oh, to see without my eyes
The first time that you kissed me
Boundless by the time I cried
I built your walls around me
White noise, what an awful sound
Fumbling by Rogue River
Feel my feet above the ground
Hand of God, deliver me

Oh, woah woe is me
The first time that you touched me
Oh, will wonders ever cease?
Blessed be the mystery of love

Lord, I no longer believe
Drowned in living waters
Cursed by the love that I received
From my brother’s daughter
Like Hephaestion, who died
Alexander’s lover
Now my riverbed has dried
Shall I find no other?

Oh, woah woe is me
I’m running like a plover
Now I’m prone to misery
The birthmark on your shoulder reminds me

How much sorrow can I take?
Blackbird on my shoulder
And what difference does it make
When this love is over?
Shall I sleep within your bed
River of unhappiness
Hold your hands upon my head
Till I breathe my last breath

Oh, woah woe is me
The last time that you touched me
Oh, will wonders ever cease?
Blessed be the mystery of love

JAMES IVORY
Screenwriter